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They make small, but very attractive models. Here is Mary Sinclair that I completed on Wednesday morning. Scale 20'=1" This is my 3rd polystyrene sea and I am finding it far superior to plasticine.
Bob

very nice!

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Timothy Dike
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Really beautiful once again Bob.

You're right; the sea is so much better than your previous plasticine seas, and I really admired them too.

I have tried this method of sea for my Glenmoor, but somehow it doesn't look 'real'.

Is there any way you can do a photo tutorial for the sea, or perhaps include it into your next instruction CD?

John

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John

Hi John,
Thanks. I have replied via e-mail. I was actually started on the polystyrene seas here on Model Warships in the Hints & Tips section. The main change I made to the suggested methods was to shape the sea with a gas blowtorch with the air intake turned off so the flame was more like a candle flame. I am not planning another instructional CDs in the near future. Having done one for sail & one for steam/motor, there is nothing much more to add at the moment.
Incidentally, I only noticed the blue spot in the wake of Mary Sinclair after I took the above photograph. It has since been corrected with a bit of white paint!
Bob

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Thanks, I never relly gave it a thought because my wife paints the seas! I see your point though and can therfore correct the matter on the next one. I suppose I have spent too long sailing in ships with propellers
Bob

Message now passed on to wife, who agrees!
Bob

My first thread reply, (took me long enough to find my way back to sailing ships after logging on). I chose this to test reply mode, as that schooner is top notch Bob, very crisp!. hope to post some of my 1.300 & 1.1200 stuff when i have got my head round it. Will be watching for other models you put on here.

@Bob,

Third sea in polystyrene ? Did I miss something there ? Do you show the method anywhere ?

wefalck

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Hi Wefalck,
I just followed the technique described in the Hints & Tips section here. The only thing I did differently was forming the surface of the sea with a small gas torch. I turned the air intake off so the flame was like a candle flame. The polystyrene sank in very quickly even with just a light brushing of the flame.
Bob

Ah, OK. It the technique for sculpting styrofoam. I thought you used some polystyrene putty.

Actually, I used in principle the same technique for sculpting rocks on a model railway layout some 40+ years ago. The shapes were created using a soldering iron with a Teflon-coated styrofoam-cutting tip and whole covered in plaster afterwards.

Thinking about it: I just acquired from a Chinese source (48 € including shipping) an electrical hot-air soldering torch. The temperature can be controlled between about 70°C and 450°C, the airflow can be regulated and it has various nozzles from 3 mm to 10 mm diameter. Such a device should give much better control over the process than a blow-torch.

wefalck

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Eberhard

Former chairman Arbeitskreis historischer Schiffbau e.V. (German Association for Shipbuilding History)

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A pair of BF-110s on patrol over Sicily, 1943.



Look closely and there's a very unique Vorpostenboot down there.

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Current build logs -
1/72 110' Subchasers as Rum Runners
1/96 Japanese 'Steel Truck'
1/96 12cm pre-Dreadnaught deck gun
1/124 CS Privateer 'Beauregard'
1/124 CS Blockade Runners Pevensey & Ella Warley
1/192 scale whaler PEQUOD

I'm working on a 1/700 scale Canadian maritime set. The War of 1812 Nancy schooner and Stan Rogers' "Barrett's Privateers" fictitious Antelope sloop are included with 2 Cape Island lobster boats. The Bluenose is still in the mastering stage, but I expect to get her to mold before the end of summer this year.

I'm new here, so I apologize for my lack of knowledge at posting photos.

Barrett's Privateers 1/700 Antelope sloop, sporting her topsail. She's a fictitious ship, so no references apply. Do what you want! Her cannon are 9-pound 3D printed guns, rather than the "cracked 4-pounders that make an awful din" in the song. She is neither "scummy" nor "sickening". 10 gunports are molded into her hull. She carries 4 cannon for the box art photo. She's won several contest awards as a stand alone Sloop model.


War of 1812 1/700 Canadian topsail schooner Nancy.
Switching from invisible thread to Uschi .005 rigging line added to the scale authenticity of the model ship, I think.
See the little white figurehead of the owner's daughter, Nancy on the point of the bow? Nancy's guns are also inaccurate. She carried 6-pounders during the war. These are the 1/700 9-pound 3d printed cannon again, like the Antelope's.
P/E ratlines and guns will be included in the kit.

1/700 War of 1812 US Brigs Lawrence and Niagara are also in the works. These grand ladies are easier, because the hulls and sail plans are exactly the same. One Master. One Mold. (One mission)
Apologies, neither Lawrence or Niagara are topsail schooners.